The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 resulted in the victory of the allied French...
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south of Lake Garda. It is best known as being close to the site of the Battle of Solferino on 24 June 1859, part of the Second Italian War of Independence...
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is a complete list of units and commanders who fought in the battle of Solferino on June 24, 1859. Emperor Napoleon III Chief of Staff: Jean-Baptiste...
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Henry Dunant (redirect from Grave of Henry Dunant, Founder of the Red Cross Movement)
witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in northern Italy. Horrified by the suffering of the wounded and the lack of care they received, Dunant...
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founding of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Witnessing the suffering of thousands of wounded soldiers of the Battle of Solferino in 1859...
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Franco-Sardinian victory at the Battle of Solferino on 24 June resulted in the end of the war and the signing of the Armistice of Villafranca on 12 July. Austria...
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Philip Kearny (category Members of the Aztec Club of 1847)
Guard at the Battle of Solferino. The first U.S. citizen to be awarded the French Légion d'Honneur, he was killed in action in the 1862 Battle of Chantilly...
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Age of Panic (French: La Bataille de Solférino) is a 2013 French comedy drama film written and directed by Justine Triet. It was nominated for Best First...
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Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte (redirect from Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Prince Français, Count of Meudon, Count of Moncalieri ad personam, titular 3rd Prince of Montfort)
of Solferino. Born at Trieste in the Austrian Empire (today Italy), and known as "Prince Napoléon", "Prince Napoléon-Jérôme, or by the sobriquet of "Plon-Plon"...
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Jean Danjou (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
1859 he fought in the Battle of Magenta and the Battle of Solférino. After serving in Morocco for some time, Danjou was part of the French expeditionary...
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following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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Napoleon III (redirect from Napoleon III of france)
superior in artillery. On 24 June, the second and decisive battle was fought at Solferino. This battle was even longer and bloodier than Magenta. In confused...
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Dunant went to visit wounded soldiers after the Battle of Solferino in 1859. He was shocked by the lack of facilities, personnel, and medical aid available...
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nearby rue de Solférino, which in turn was named after the Battle of Solferino, a battle fought in 1859 during the Second Italian War of Independence,...
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Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (redirect from Pont de Solférino)
formerly known as passerelle Solférino (or pont de Solférino), is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is served by the...
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Solférino was the second and last ship of the Magenta-class of broadside ironclads built for the French Navy (Marine nationale) in the early 1860s. These...
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of Austria within the German Confederation, though they just had suffered a crushing defeat at the bloody Battle of Solferino. The second statue of Prince...
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Red Cross and Red Crescent Day". In Solferino, a small museum describes the history of the Battle of Solferino and of the Risorgimento, the long and bloody...
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Radetzky March (novel) (category Cultural depictions of Franz Joseph I of Austria)
Napoleon III of France, the Emperor of the French, and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. In northern Italy, during the Battle of Solferino (24 June 1859)...
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Austrians with the help of Sardinia and France in 1859. Following the Battle of Solferino Milan and the rest of Lombardy joined the Kingdom of Sardinia, which...
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Lake Garda (redirect from Lake of Garda)
Shortly after the battle of Solferino and San Martino was won by the Franco-Savoyards and Peschiera was besieged. With the armistice of Villafranca the...
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2018. The street is named after the Battle of Solferino, fought by Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II against Francis Joseph of Austria in 1859. v t e...
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Battle of Solferino and the bronze war medal, 1859. In 1863, Francis was created Prince of Teck, with the style of Serene Highness, in the Kingdom of...
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led to the cession of Lombardy to the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont). The Battle of Solferino took place near the villages of Solferino and San Martino della...
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Solferino on the evening of 24 June, he witnessed the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino, an engagement in the Second Italian War of Independence. In a single...
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Castiglione delle Stiviere (category Municipalities of the Province of Mantua)
established by Henri Dunant during the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in 1859. There is a museum in the center of the town dedicated to the IRC. Castiglione...
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First Geneva Convention (redirect from Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field)
care for the wounded and prisoners of war began when relief activist Henry Dunant witnessed the Battle of Solferino in 1859, fought between French-Piedmontese...
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François Certain de Canrobert (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
participating in the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Magenta, the Battle of Solferino and the Battle of Gravelotte. A staunch supporter of Napoleon III, he...
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Humanitarian aid (section Types of humanitarian aid)
seeing the sheer destruction and inhumane abandonment of wounded soldiers from the Battle of Solferino in June 1859, canceled his plans and began a relief...
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defeated at the Battle of Magenta on 4 June and pushed back to Lombardy. Napoleon III's plans worked and at the Battle of Solferino, France and Sardinia...
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